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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stew Meat realize?
(a) That Adam, Polly and Rowena are deluded.
(b) That Adam, Polly and Rowena are in a bad place.
(c) That Adam, Polly and Rowena just want him to miss out on using his card for himself.
(d) That he was wise not to use his card.

2. What does Henry demand Rowena do?
(a) Trying to pull him out of the ground.
(b) Finding a spell to change him back.
(c) Focus on helping him.
(d) Getting the fire department out to help.

3. What does Adam's mother say when he tries to tell his parents about his wish?
(a) She tells Adam it is not his fault.
(b) She tells Adam to be quiet.
(c) She tells Adam that he can not go to college now since they have probably lost the farm.
(d) She tells Adam the flood is all his fault.

4. Why does Adam harness the horses to the wagon?
(a) To give his friends a ride.
(b) To take a cage of chickens to sell at farmer's market.
(c) To go get water at the river.
(d) To take the infertile sow to the butcher.

5. About what is Adam unhappy?
(a) The chickens are not producing many eggs.
(b) The sow only had two babies.
(c) The well has gone dry.
(d) A fox got three hens.

6. What does Sam suggest they do for Henry?
(a) Leave him alone to sulk.
(b) Notify his parents of his situation.
(c) Feed him some fertilizer.
(d) Make him more comfortable.

7. What does Adam promise his mother to do?
(a) Work harder in school.
(b) Help her set up a flower garden.
(c) Be nicer to his youngest brother who sometimes pesters Adam.
(d) Be nicer to his young cousin who is staying with them.

8. What does Sam take to the barn to keep dry?
(a) The briefcase full of papers.
(b) The horse blanket.
(c) Henry's suitcase.
(d) Henry's clothes.

9. Where does the Epilogue open?
(a) Stew Meat's Store.
(b) At school.
(c) By Henry in the woods.
(d) Adam's family farm.

10. Who is Uncle Poot?
(a) A dam expert.
(b) A dowser.
(c) Adam's favorite uncle.
(d) Polly's uncle who is an engineer.

11. What does Rowena do after remembering the day in Blinn's tent?
(a) Goes to the authorities.
(b) Contacts her priest.
(c) Nothing as she is stumped as to what to do.
(d) Formulates a plan.

12. What do Rowena's parents hear about the same time that Adam, Polly and Rowena are at Stew Meat's store?
(a) A strange sound in the woods.
(b) A loud pop.
(c) Someone yelling "alleluia".
(d) A scream.

13. What does Adam learn from his father as he goes to bed?
(a) Water is coming in the basement.
(b) The water seems to be slowing.
(c) The townspeople are trying to help build a sandbag wall.
(d) The water is almost to the top of the basement.

14. What do Adam's parents realize?
(a) The water has disappeared.
(b) The cellar is dry.
(c) The well is dry again.
(d) The water has stopped gushing.

15. Who are two people who taunt Adam as he is driving the wagon?
(a) Polly and Rowena.
(b) Agatha and Eunice.
(c) Leland and Lenora.
(d) No one taunts him since they admire him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first person narrator in the Epilogue?

2. What stories had Henry fabricated?

3. What does Adam's mother think when Adam tells her his discovery?

4. About what does Mrs. Jervice remind Rowena?

5. How does Adam's Pa react to the wish Adam made?

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